Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo plans to bring his patent royalty dispute with Ono Pharmaceutical Co. to court as early as September, seeking an additional payment of ¥15 billion, according to informed sources.
In the planned lawsuit with the Osaka District Court, Honjo will claim that ...

A group of lawyers on Monday filed lawsuits with 14 high courts and high court branches across the country, seeking to invalidate the results of the Upper House election.
The lawyers claim the election, which was held on Sunday, was unconstitutional because of nationwide disparities ...

Best-selling nonfiction writer Tamotsu Sugano was referred to prosecutors earlier this month after allegations he attempted to sexually assault a woman in 2012, police said Wednesday.
According to investigative papers sent to prosecutors on May 14, Sugano is suspected of having pushed the woman onto ...

World No. 1 Naomi Osaka refused on Wednesday to become embroiled in a dispute with one of her former coaches who is suing her for 20 percent of her career earnings.
Christophe Jean, who helped the two-time Grand Slam champion when she was a junior, ...

Naomi Osaka is being sued by her former coach who says the world No. 1 tennis player owes him 20 percent of her career earnings, American entertainment website TMZ has reported.
Christophe Jean, the two-time Grand Slam champion's former junior coach is demanding a least ...

Environmental campaigners have filed an unprecedented lawsuit in a bid to halt the so-called drive hunting of dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, arguing that the practice is cruel and illegal.
In drive hunting, fishermen force dolphins into a cove by beating on boats to disorient ...

Wrestler Takanoiwa on Tuesday dropped a damages suit filed against former yokozuna Harumafuji for an assault last year, saying his family in Mongolia has been subject to abuse over the legal action.
In the civil suit filed earlier this month, Takanoiwa sought ¥24 million ($213,000) ...

When Donald Trump offered to pay $10,000 from his personal charitable foundation for a six-foot oil portrait of himself, the future president only meant to "get the bidding started" during a 2014 auction at his Mar-a-Lago resort, his lawyer told a New York judge.
"No ...

Kazuhito Sakae, the prominent wrestling coach who came under fire for harassing four-time Olympic champion Kaori Icho, has filed a defamation suit against another coach believed to have first made the allegations, Sakae's lawyer said Saturday.
Sakae, who brought the case to the Nagoya District ...

The wife of a 39-year-old Nepalese man who died in March last year while being interrogated by prosecutors filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court on Friday, demanding about ¥7 million in damages from the central government and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
She has ...

The family of an Australian woman who was shot dead by Minneapolis police last year after calling them to report a suspected crime near her home sued the city and several officers Monday, saying they had violated her civil rights.
The fatal July 2017 shooting ...